In article , Brian Gaff
wrote:
I simply do not see what was wrong with the old system, licencing or
whatever surely must cost less than the mess they have thus far created
depriving lots of people of their feeds who have no way to get their
radio stuff back without buying new kit or learning new software. its
about time the BBC realised they have a responsibility to at least
give suitable warnings befor trashing whole ranges of device and
software overnight without even a second thought.

Its unfortunate that you can't see the diagram I did for Fig1, let alone
the far more complicated ones I worked from to show the sheer engineering
complexity of the system they'd built. In engineering terms, it had grown
into a real mess, cobbled together on the basis of a lot of ongoing effort
and tweaking. An expensive nightmare to maintain and develop or extend.

However the BBC did start speaking to the aggrigators, closed-box makers,
etc, in Jan 2014. And they did publicise various changes months beforehand.
So any responsibility has to be shared between the BBC and the various
companies involved. Unless we were at the discussions they had, or have
seen the documents exchanged, it's hard to say more.

The new system is far less of a 'mess' than the old one. And should lead to
*all* the BBC radio stations being available as 320kbps aac. And via HTML5
which is an open standard. Combine that with the new system being much less
of an operational engineering mess than the old one, and the chances are
things will be far better for them and us in the long term than if they'd
been forced to stick with what they had.

Jim

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